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Womble Carlyle attorney Betty Temple has been named to the 2009 BTI Client Service All-Star Team. Temple is one of only 176 attorneys nationally and across the globe to make the list of client service all-stars. She is the only attorney in South Carolina to be named a Client Service All-Star.

The list honors attorneys who deliver outstanding service to Fortune 1000 companies. Attorneys must be nominated by name and unprompted by a client. BTI conducted extensive interviews with corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies to gauge the quality of service they are receiving from their outside law firms. According to the report, members of the Client Service All-Star Team are able to “instill a confidence and trust reserved only for the most valued and strategic business partners.”

This is the second time Temple has been named to the BTI Client Service All-Star Team, as she also was recognized in 2006.

“I’m honored to receive this recognition, particularly since it comes from my clients,” Temple said. “I have always made client service a focus in my practice and it is gratifying to know these efforts are appreciated.”

“Client service is the top priority at Womble Carlyle and no one exemplifies that better than Betty Temple,” said Allen Grumbine, Managing Member of the Greenville Office.

Temple is a member of the firm’s Corporate & Securities team and practices in the Greenville office. A substantial portion of her practice includes advising issuers and underwriters in connection with public offerings and private placements of securities. Betty has also represented companies in a variety of acquisition transactions, including asset purchases and sales, mergers, tender offers and proxy contests. Temple’s venture capital financing experience includes the representation of both start-up companies and venture capitalists. She also does general corporate and securities work for ongoing public and private clients on matters such as SEC compliance, securities and disclosure issues and review of corporate governance matters. Temple also serves as independent special counsel to public company boards of directors and audit and compensation committees. Temple currently serves as the Co-Chairperson of the Womble Carlyle’s Sarbanes-Oxley Committee.

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A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among American Lawyer magazine's list of the 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a business organization in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.

The firm also is the first law firm to be awarded the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award, which is the highest recognition given by the U.S. government to employers for their support of employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve.

Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with more than 500 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.